The Age – Letters – April 9 2017
Religious reversals
It’s a bit rich for religious conservatives to be denouncing gay activists for urging boycotts of companies that don’t support marriage equality. They do the exact thing in reverse. The religious right and other anti-LGBTI groups held an international conference in South Africa last December, largely to oppose the international spread of marriage equality.
All delegates, including Lyle Shelton from the Australian Christian Lobby and David van Gend from Australian Marriage Forum, signed a pledge to what is now called the Cape Town Declaration. Apart from pledging to oppose same-sex marriage, the Declaration commits its signatories, where possible, “to refuse to deal with corporations” that deny their “religious truths”.
Brian Greig, Bayswater, WA
Shining sunlight on the hypocrisy and darkness of Lyle Shelton and David van Gend
Shining a little sunlight into the darkness of Lyle Shelton and David van Gend.